Author talk with Chris Arnone about his intersex memoir, with a foreword by Alicia Roth Weigel.
Chris Arnone is coming to BookWoman on Friday, August 21, for a reading and talk around his memoir, My Name Was Baby: An Intersex Memoir. The book features a foreword by Alicia Roth Weigel, and the evening is built around Arnone reading from the text and talking through it with the room. It's an in-store event, so you'll be right there in the bookstore rather than a separate stage or hall.
Arnone is an author and an intersex activist, and My Name Was Baby is his intersex memoir. The title itself points toward the central subject: the experience of growing up intersex and the medical and social systems that surround it. The reading and the talk that follows are meant to open up that story, with Arnone speaking to the themes he works through in the book. If you've been following his work as an activist, this is the written version of those conversations.
The evening is structured as a reading first, then an author talk, so you'll hear the prose as he intended it before he steps back to discuss the ideas behind it. It's the kind of night that works best when you're actually in the room, since the conversation tends to shift based on the questions that come up.
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It all happens at BookWoman in Austin, starting at 7 PM. Bookings are by RSVP, so you'll want to get your name on the list ahead of time rather than just showing up. The event is on Friday, August 21, at 7 PM.
